I'm not that great at the Rubik's Cube. I need to get one of the little 2 by 2 ones to practice on before going to the big leagues. There's always the option of taking all of the stickers off and putting them in the right place.

My cousin's son is a whiz at pretty much all of the Rubik's Cube variations... I can do the 3x3 one in a few minutes. I start out with the top edges, go to top corners, and then use a certain sequence of moves to do the middle and bottom edges at the same time. If I'm lucky, the bottom corners will line up for a multiple of that same sequence of moves to organize them into place, otherwise I restart from the bottom or one of the sides based on the configuration of the bottom corners, and repeat. Usually within a few times of doing this, I can get the bottom corners to line up and finish the cube. It's kind of a trial and error mixed with some memory of what works after a certain point.